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Decoy: Cabernet Sauvignon (2016)

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Eventually, the name came to be attached to another kind of game hunting device with which we’re more familiar today: life-sized wooden carvings of waterfowl floated on water to fool birds into landing within range of nearby hunters lying in wait.

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The Famous Grouse: Smoky Black Blended Scotch Whisky

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It’s also one of Scotland’s most iconic birds and the favorite quarry of hunters during the August season that begins on “The Glorious Twelfth”. The controversial management of Scotland’s grouse moors for these hunts is discussed in last week’s edition of Birds and Booze.).

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Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven”

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’ Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning – little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door - Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as `Nevermore.’

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